An anonymous caller told Dan's father that a pedophile ring was involved.

* It took a full year for police to draw up the first set of suspect composites and 3 years for police to draw up the second set of potential suspect composites from interviews conducted with a handful of women.

* There was a proven nationwide pedophile ring operating in Australia.

* Witnesses saw 2 males in the suspicious blue car around the bus stop at the time Dan was abducted. Dartanyon Hurst, last seen at a skate park (South Australia Police)

In 1997, ABC newsreader Rod Young tells viewers snuff films have allegedly been produced in Brisbane, citing alleged existence of video tape shot on the bank of the Brisbane river, in which a young male person is murdered.

In 1999, two journalists from Australia's Sun-Herald claimed to have seen evidence of the ritual abuse of children.

They interviewed six mothers whose children had disclosed experiences of SRA and organised abuse in New South Wales.

The children's disclosures were corroborating, although they had never met one another, and they had been able to draw representations of "satanic" ritual sites which were similar to ritual sites uncovered by police on the central coast of New South Wales. (List of satanic ritual abuse allegations. )